Saturday, May 12, 2007

God is Everywhere!!

Yes, feel the love. Seek out the primordial unity in your non-self and collapse the buildings because we've got something from........

BOREDOM(E)SSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Super Roots 9 has been dropped on Japan and now it can be dropped on your face virtue of the intranow. Yes, this is what heaven sounds like. It's one of those records/performances that I could just blah blah blah on about for hours, so instead, let it eat your face and we can talk about it later:Boredoms-LIVWE!!

Wanna hear something funny. So like this improv super-group, Original Silence--consisting of the lights of Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, relentless drummer Paul Nilssen-Love, and some other cool cats--are actually kind of loud! Heh heh, talk about NOT truth in advertising! Yeah...

Anywho, whether you're a fan of folks dicking around on their instruments without a set plan or not, this recording is bound to make even the most meticulous bedroom producer rethink their methodology. Reason is, this album is FIERCE and immediate. Sure, it lags at points, but these high-caliber musicians always keep it moving forward, either locking into an "angular" groove or smashing it to bits. Regardless of where it goes, they've managed to make a truly FUN and forceful record that puts a lot of the younger cats out there to shame. Dig it, man:Original Silence-If Light Has No Age, Time Has No Shadow

And now to truly make this post a non-sequiter, I leave you with some tracks from late-90s, early 00s LA band Figurine's debut LP, Transportation+Communication=Love released on the awesomely-named Blackbean&Placenta Tape Club. Turns out Jimmy Tamborello of Postal Service and DNTEL fame cut his teeth in this electro-pop group, which explains the monotone male vocals and oh-so emo yearning that drips over every track. Nevertheless, I've been bouncing around to this all week and when I close my eyes super tight, I can pretend that this was the follow-up to The Return of The Rentals. It's sappy music for sappy cyborgs. 01101 (that's "fuck you, haters" in binary code for all you r-tards out there).Figurine-I Wait for you by the TelephoneFigurine-New Millenium SongFigurine-Secret Track